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• Venezuela’s PDVSA Faces Mass Exodus Of Workforce

  Published 15 February 2018 | viewed 28,511 times

  PDVSA, Venezuela’s state-oil company, is losing workers by the thousands, with as many as 10,000 leaving the company in just one week of January, media…

• Physical Oil Markets Don’t Lie – Is Another Crash Likely?

  Published 14 February 2018 | viewed 43,692 times

  Oil prices are falling and analysts and market players are as eager as ever to explain the decline in accordance with their own bullish or…

• Saudi Oil Exports To Japan Jump To 35-Year High

  Published 14 February 2018 | viewed 6,376 times

  Japan imported 1.295 million barrels of Saudi oil daily last year, which was a 9.5-percent annual increase and the highest import rate since 1982, Japanese…

• Oil Prices Recover After Small Crude Inventory Build

  Published 14 February 2018 | viewed 20,461 times

  After reporting two consecutive weekly crude oil inventory builds, this week the EIA continued with another build, of 1.8 million barrels for the week to…

• China, Philippines Working Out South China Sea Oil Exploration

  Published 14 February 2018 | viewed 9,234 times

  China and the Philippines have set up a panel to study ways of resolving their rival claims to parts of the South China Sea that…

• Oil Price Correction Unlikely To Harm European Majors

  Published 13 February 2018 | viewed 6,332 times

  Europe’s oil supermajors have largely adapted to lower oil prices thanks to strict financial discipline and efforts to bring down their breakeven levels, a new…

• Dollar Remains Strong In Spite Of Petro-Yuan Threat

  Published 13 February 2018 | viewed 13,928 times

  Next month may finally see the launch of the long-awaited, much-delayed Chinese oil futures priced in yuan, to be traded on the Shanghai International Energy…

• White House Proposes Sale Of Federal Power Assets

  Published 13 February 2018 | viewed 6,699 times

  The Trump administration has put forth a proposal to Congress to sell assets of federal power companies to state and local entities, or private businesses.…

• IEA Warns Of New Oil Glut

  Published 13 February 2018 | viewed 25,010 times

  The global oil market could slip into deeper oversupply on the back of non-OPEC production growth led by the United States, the International Energy Agency…

• Judge Deals Blow To Biggest Wind Project In U.S.

  Published 13 February 2018 | viewed 9,746 times

  American Electric Power Co.’s Wind Catcher project received a blow from an Oklahoma state judge who said the project failed to prove sufficient need. More…

• Indian Consortium Snaps Up 10% In Massive UAE Oil Block

  Published 12 February 2018 | viewed 5,917 times

  A consortium involving India’s biggest state oil company ONGC and two smaller companies have bought for US$600 million a 10-percent interest in the Lower Zakum offshore…

• Baghdad Asks BP To Study Kirkuk Oil Field Development

  Published 12 February 2018 | viewed 5,293 times

  After in January media reported that the Iraqi government had invited BP to carry out a feasibility study on increasing production from the oil fields…

• Goldman: Investors Grow Wary Of Another Oil Price Rally

  Published 12 February 2018 | viewed 22,053 times

  Oil investors have grown wary of another oil price rally as they have doubts about whether U.S. producers would be able to rein in production…

• U.S. To Become Net Oil And Gas Exporter In 5 Years

  Published 11 February 2018 | viewed 35,036 times

  The United States will become a net oil and gas exporter by 2022, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in this year’s edition of its…

• Kinder Morgan Accepts B.C. Gauntlet On Trans Mountain

  Published 09 February 2018 | viewed 9,656 times

  British Columbia threw down the gauntlet when its government said it will fight Kinder Morgan using any legal means available to permanently suspend the expansion…

• The Oil Bubble Has Burst. What Now?

  Published 09 February 2018 | viewed 58,839 times

  Those analysts who warned that oil prices can’t go on rising forever now have the chance to tell everyone else “I told you so.” Brent…

• India To Boost Oil Refining Capacity By 77%

  Published 08 February 2018 | viewed 14,492 times

  India plans to increase its crude oil refining capacity by 77 percent to 438.65 million tons, or more than 8 million bpd, a government report…

• Canada Oil Group Tells Alberta, B.C. To Get It Together

  Published 08 February 2018 | viewed 8,037 times

  The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers is against the politicization of the conflict between the governments of Alberta and British Columbia concerning the latter’s unwillingness…

• China Oil Imports Hit Another Record In January

  Published 08 February 2018 | viewed 10,564 times

  Crude oil imports to China hit another record last month, reaching 9.57 million barrels daily, for a total of 40.64 million tons, customs data showed.…

• Iran Could Add 100,000 Bpd In “Five Or Six Days”

  Published 07 February 2018 | viewed 11,972 times

  Amid positive comments from OPEC on the global oil supply situation and indications that some members of the cartel are ready for a longer extension…